Ross Whyte is an award-winning Scottish composer who writes for film and theatre.  His most recent credits include the atmospheric and haunting scores for the films Marram for BBC Alba, and Upstream, commissioned by Lyre Productions and The Canmore Trust and premiered at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2025.

His theatre scoring credits include the Satie-esque, Silent Cinema-era piano for La Performance (dir. Andy Arnold), jointly commissioned by Tron Theatre and International Visual Theatre, which enjoyed sell-out shows in Glasgow and Paris, with Ross hailed as “excellent” (The National), “un pianiste spirituel” (Le Journal d’Armelle Héliot), with an “accompaniment [which] does wonders in illustrating the smoky Parisian theatre, building momentum in the storyline.” (brawtheatre.com); and the ambient electronic soundscape for MAIM (dir. Muireann Kelly), commissioned by Theatre Gu Leòr, praised as “brooding and atmospheric” (The Herald), “superb” (Fringe Review), and “compelling” (The Times).

Ross's new solo album and accompanying book, Provenance, was released in 2025, and received a nomination for Album of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards.  Featuring poignant piano, strings, and ambient electronic arrangements of early Gaelic songs and original compositions, along with guest vocalists, Kathleen MacInnes, Terra Spencer, and Lilli Lewis, it has been described as "beautiful" (BBC Radio Scotland), "haunting and evocative" (The List), and "astonishing" (At the Barrier).

Ross completed a PhD in Musical Composition at the University of Aberdeen.  He later co-founded the duo WHYTE, an ambient electronic act known for modernising traditional Gaelic songs.  The duo won the prestigious Scottish Gaelic Award for Arts and Culture in 2019.  Ross currently performs with A New International.